Henry Cruse Murphy Jr. (1886–1931), who published as H.C. Murphy, was an American illustrator and author associated with pulp and popular magazines. His work appeared in Adventure, Short Stories, Action Stories, Frontier Stories, Air Stories, Soldier Stories, Black Mask, and other periodicals during the 1920s and early 1930s. Murphy came from a prominent Brooklyn family: his great-grandfather Henry C. Murphy was a Brooklyn mayor, newspaper editor, senator, and diplomat, while his father was a chemist.